There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.